Significance of Narendra Modi’s Japan Visit By Deepak Parvatiyar September 4, 2014 “Being a Gujarati, money is in my blood…commerce is in my blood.” Mark Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s words when he met top Japanese industrialists in Tokyo. Obviously, a Gujarati has a knack for business. Yet the point that needs to be underscored is that hard bargaining forms the core of his business sense. “Apvanu bhav su chhe?” (What is the right selling price?) – can be heard all through a bustling Gujarati market place. Twin Challenges of dealing with Japan and China It’s from Gujarat too, Ahmedabad-Mumbai railway corridor to be precise, that Modi has proposed to introduce Bullet trains in the country. The two countries that are wooing India to buy such trains are arch rivals Japan and China. Does it surprise anyone therefore, that at the time when Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was busy offering the Japanese bullet train technology to Modi, India’s Commerce Minister Nirma
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